Sulphur River Gallery 11
Approaching the "Reservoir"
This old oak tree is known locally
as "the pregnant tree". The large balloon-like "cancer"
supposedly developed when the tree-trunk tried to grow around
some "obstruction" that had injured it. Never had I
seen such an oddity of nature as this before. By this point in
my sequence of photographs, everything that you see, including
this "pregnant tree", will be covered by the water of
the reservoir. This will be a shallow lake compared to others,
and the tops of literally thousands of tall trees will be sticking
out of the lake level, even above the dam, creating an ugly eyesore,
not to mention the purely environmental destruction of this fragile
wetlands system, which is the last remaining such wetlands in
the State of Texas.
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